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BOOK REVIEW: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Review by Janet Raloff.
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth by Chris Stringer
A paleoanthropologist argues that multiple early human groups arose and competed in Africa. Times Books, 2012, 320 p., $28
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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol
A look at new technologies such as genome sequencing and organ growth suggests that digital advances could usher in a new age of personalized medicine. Basic Books, 2012, 304 p., $27.99
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
A journalist explores research on how habits are formed in the brain, how to create new ones and what it takes to break them. Random House, 2012, 371 p., $28
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Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality by Elias Aboujaoude
A psychiatrist examines online alter egos and how they can affect life offline, sometimes for the worse. W.W. Norton, 2011, 349 p., $17.95
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The Quantum Universe (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does) by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Two physicists use simple analogies to explain the weird world of quantum theory. Da Capo Press, 2011, 256 p., $25
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Science Past from the issue of April 21, 1962
GLENN REPORTS ON FLIGHT — The brilliant light from the “fireball” Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. saw passing the window of his space capsule was observed by more than 1,400 scientists at a symposium in Washington, D.C. A color film, showing the astronaut in his cabin during flight, clearly revealed reflections of the burning chunks […]
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Science Future for April 21, 2012
April 28 Celebrate Astronomy Day with stargazing, workshops and other events nationwide. For more information, see bit.ly/GTe2wm May 3 An underwater archaeologist talks about surveys of pirate ships as part of a Science Museum of Minnesota series on the science and history of pirates. See bit.ly/xAPeLZ
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SN Online
SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC BLOG A court orders FDA hearings on livestock drugs. See “Growth-promoting antibiotics: On the way out?” Jason Brougham/Univ. of Texas LIFE A birdlike dinosaur (illustrated below) was iridescent. Read “Microraptor’s true blue colors.” ENVIRONMENT Deep corals were harmed by the BP spill. Learn more in “The farther the better for corals […]
